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IITI 2019: Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’19) pp 412–421Cite as

Hybrid Approach for Bots Detection in Social Networks Based on Topological, Textual and Statistical Features

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The paper presents a hybrid approach to social network analysis for obtaining information on suspicious user profiles. The offered approach is based on integration of statistical techniques, data mining and visual analysis. The advantage of the proposed approach is that it needs limited kinds of social network data (“likes” in groups and links between users) which is often in open access. The results of experiments confirming the applicability of the proposed approach are outlined.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant number 18-71-10094 in SPIIRAS.

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  1. St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14-th Liniya, 39, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia

    Lidia Vitkova, Igor Kotenko, Maxim Kolomeets, Olga Tushkanova & Andrey Chechulin

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Correspondence to Lidia Vitkova .

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  1. Rostovskogo Strelkovogo Polka Narodnogo, Rostov State Transport University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    Sergey Kovalev

  2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia

    Valery Tarassov

  3. Department of Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Snasel

  4. Rostovskogo Strelkovogo Polka, Rostov State Transport University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    Andrey Sukhanov

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Vitkova, L., Kotenko, I., Kolomeets, M., Tushkanova, O., Chechulin, A. (2020). Hybrid Approach for Bots Detection in Social Networks Based on Topological, Textual and Statistical Features. In: Kovalev, S., Tarassov, V., Snasel, V., Sukhanov, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’19). IITI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1156. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50097-9_42

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